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As fighting continues, the number of people trying to reach Europe by sea has risen since the crisis in Libya began. There are major concerns as people fleeing the violence are often using unsafe and overloaded vessels. On 6 May, a boat carrying people fleeing Libya broke up shortly after departing Tripoli...

Valerie Amos, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, will starting a four-day trip to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) and Israel tomorrow, with EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response,...

OCHA and Western Union called on the global corporate community to raise US$500,000 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of CERF, the Central Emergency Response Fund. CEO Hikmet Ersek launched the initiative on 10 May, encouraging peers to pre-fund life-saving disaster response work through CERF.
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People in Libya's western Nafusa Mountain region continue to be caught up in the conflict. In Nalut and Zintan, ongoing fighting continues to hinder delivery of assistance to those in need, and half of the population of these towns have reportedly left. On 7 May, media reports indicated that fighting...

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) launched the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2011, Revealing Risk, Redefining Development, at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction today in Geneva. The report stresses the need for the international...